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FISHES OF NORTH CAROLINA. 



anyle; scales large, ctenoid, about 50 in lateral series, 14 to 16 in transverse series; dorsal rays 

 x + i,24 to 2G, third and fourth spines contained 2^ times in head; anal rays ii,5 or ii,6, second 

 spine .33 length of head. Color: grayish olive above, silvery white below; 7 to 9 dark vertical 

 bars extending from back to middle of sides; anal, ventrals, and lower rays of caudal yellow; 

 cheeks, opercles, inside of mouth, and gill-cavity light yellow, (fasciatus, banded.) 



The regular range of this species is Chesapeake Bay to Texas, but stragglers 

 have been found as far north as Massachusetts (Woods Hole). It is not common 

 anywhere, and has not heretofore been recorded from North Carolina. Within 

 the past few years several specimens have been collected at Beaufort, and 3 

 about 3 inches long, obtained in 1902, are now in the laboratory at that place. 

 The species probably does not exceed 1 foot in length. 



Genus BAIRDIELLA Gill. Mademoiselles. 



Small American shore fishes, mostly of a plain silvery color, with moder- 

 ately elongate, compressed body; elevated back; somewhat oblique mouth, 

 with small teeth in several rows; slender gill-rakers; toothed margin of preoper- 

 cle; and continuous dorsal fin. The species are mostly subtropical, only 1 being 

 known from the United States, (Named for Spencer Fullerton Baird, late U. S, 

 Commissioner of Fisheries and Secretarv of the Smithsonian Institution.) 



272. BAIRDIELLA CHRYSURA (Lacepede). 



"Perch"; "White Perch"; "Sand Perch"; "Yellow-finned Perch"; "Silver Perch"; 



Yellow-tail. 



Dipterodon chrysurus Lacepfede, Histoire Naturelle des Poissons, iii, 64, 1802; South Carolina. 

 Bairdiellapunctata.YsLTTow, 1877,210; Beaufort. Jordan & Gilbert, 1879, 377r Beaufort. 

 Scioenachrysura, Jordan, 1886, 28; Beaufort. Jenkins, 1887, 90; Beaufort, 



Bairdiella chrysura, Goode, 1884, 375; Beaufort. Jordan & Evermann, 1898, 1433, pi. ccxxii, fig. 566. Linton, 

 1905, 387; Beaufort. 



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Fig. 140. Yellow-tail. Bairdiella chrysura. 



DLiGNOSis. — Body oblong, compressed, the depth .33 total length; head contained 3.33 

 to 3.50 times in length; snout short and blunt, as long as eye; maxillary extending beyond 



